Book for sale

Am I allowed to do gratuitous adverts for my witty yet incisive new (well, first) book here? 140,000 words of top-notch farming-related drivel wisdom over nearly 300 pages - c/w lovely pictures!

Edited with link to buy:

 

[Lucy @ Farm Marketplace]

Now available on Farm Marketplace

 

[Charlie Flindt]

Now available on Farm Marketplace


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That was clever. Clive; how did you manage that? - I still haven't sent 'em any details!!

 

[Clive]

That was clever. Clive; how did you manage that? - I still haven't sent 'em any details!!

copy and paste from ebay

all thats missing is for you to send the guys at FMP your details for payments

 

[Charlie Flindt]

copy and paste from ebay

all thats missing is for you to send the guys at FMP your details for payments

Tried ringing Lucy...no answer.

 

[Clive]

Tried ringing Lucy...no answer.

shes left the office for the day now, will ask her to get in touch on Monday

 

[Charlie Flindt]

Even more exciting news - the now legendary book (in these parts, at least) is at last available on Amazon, and I have to say getting it listed there (as a business seller) was, without doubt, the most bureaucratically hideous experience of my life, so I hope it's worth it. I also have absolutely no confidence that I've done it correctly, so if you do order one, you may end up with a bunch of dalias and sixteen meters of four by two. Still, at that price, it'll be a bargain.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sweet-Home...s=hinton+ampner&qid=1570958026&s=books&sr=1-2

 

[Hfd Cattle]

Just ordered mine !

 

[Vincent]

Is e bay the only way to purchase the book.

 

[Charlie Flindt]

Ebay and Amazon...not sure about getting one over to RoI, though.

 

[Vincent]

Ok I will get some one more tech savvy than me to try to purchase of e bay and see what happens.

 

[Charlie Flindt]

Just ordered mine !

eBay or Amazon? I can't find your order on either!

 

[Charlie Flindt]

Just ordered mine !

Found it! Should be in the post this afternoon. Thanks.

 

[the-mad-welder]

Kerching!!

Another one sold via FMP

Dad sorted for Christmas, but i'll carefully read it myself with clean hands first!!

 

[Charlie Flindt]

Kerching!!

Another one sold via FMP

Dad sorted for Christmas, but i'll carefully read it myself with clean hands first!!

Blimey, I'd better get on and register at FMP!!!

 

[Charlie Flindt]

Kerching!!

Another one sold via FMP

Dad sorted for Christmas, but i'll carefully read it myself with clean hands first!!

In the post this afternoon. Thanks.

 

[chaffcutter]

Hi Charlie, it’s a great read, remarkable how many frustrations farmers share wherever they farm.
any chance of telling us how some of your fields got their names? Whose was the love that created a field name of ‘Behind My Love’s’?

 

[Charlie Flindt]

Hi Charlie, it’s a great read, remarkable how many frustrations farmers share wherever they farm.
any chance of telling us how some of your fields got their names? Whose was the love that created a field name of ‘Behind My Love’s’?

Very kind words - really appreciated; thanks!

Behind My Love's used to go with the stunning Arts and Crafts style house immediately south of it - Joan's Acre House. Not long after the National Trust inherited the estate, they started letting out Joan's Acre House, but not the field; so it was offered to Dad, and tagged onto his tenancy agreement. As usual, a great deal of bulldozing of hedges took place (it was the early 1980s after all!) Up came the thorny subject of a name for the field; we couldn't call it Joan's Acre, because we already had one. And Dad already had several 'New' fields (which I managed to find other names for), which he'd taken over over the years, so we needed something better. By then, a lovely family had moved into Joan's Acre House, and they were always waving and shouting in greeting, and everyone they met was called ..."My Love"! "Alright, my love?" "How are you, my love?" Inevitably, the field became...Behind My Love's.!!

The follow up story is that the present resident of JA House is a literary agent, who numbers, among his clients, one Richard (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Blackadder, Notting Hill, Love Actually) Curtis. I gave him a copy of my book, just for a laugh, and he rang back a week later, claiming to have read it cover to cover, and saying nice things, but pointing out that he didn't have a clue what I was on about most of the time. "You should think of us non-farming readers! We need an ABC of farming tagged at the back in the next edition!" Best news of all is that he thinks there will be a next edition!

Mind you, every time I see him, I remind him that Mr Curtis owes me the £2.50 that I wasted renting the terrible 'Love Actually'.

 

[RmfJ]

Very kind words - really appreciated; thanks!

Behind My Love's used to go with the stunning Arts and Crafts style house immediately south of it - Joan's Acre House. Not long after the National Trust inherited the estate, they started letting out Joan's Acre House, but not the field; so it was offered to Dad, and tagged onto his tenancy agreement. As usual, a great deal of bulldozing of hedges took place (it was the early 1980s after all!) Up came the thorny subject of a name for the field; we couldn't call it Joan's Acre, because we already had one. And Dad already had several 'New' fields (which I managed to find other names for), which he'd taken over over the years, so we needed something better. By then, a lovely family had moved into Joan's Acre House, and they were always waving and shouting in greeting, and everyone they met was called ..."My Love"! "Alright, my love?" "How are you, my love?" Inevitably, the field became...Behind My Love's.!!

The follow up story is that the present resident of JA House is a literary agent, who numbers, among his clients, one Richard (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Blackadder, Notting Hill, Love Actually) Curtis. I gave him a copy of my book, just for a laugh, and he rang back a week later, claiming to have read it cover to cover, and saying nice things, but pointing out that he didn't have a clue what I was on about most of the time. "You should think of us non-farming readers! We need an ABC of farming tagged at the back in the next edition!" Best news of all is that he thinks there will be a next edition!

Mind you, every time I see him, I remind him that Mr Curtis owes me the £2.50 that I wasted renting the terrible 'Love Actually'.

Good story, could have been a lot more fruity with your creative mind!

 

[Charlie Flindt]

Good story, could have been a lot more fruity with your creative mind!

For 'creative' read 'fithy'....

 

[the-mad-welder]

In the post this afternoon. Thanks.

Arrived safely on Wednesday, many thanks!!